tweet me @smerconish. what do you have to say? why are you giving credibility to something the right wing echo chamber just made up? how about talking more about the real link between the number of guns and shootings? hey, just because the crime issue gets a lot of play in other quarters, and i see it, doesn t mean it s not a worthy or legit issue. do we have the ability to put back on the screen right now the spike in crime and the pew data? vaughn, can you put up any that have to respond to this individual? okay. it s numbers-driven. this is not okay. take a look at the u.s. murder rate. and now tell me i m just falling into some right wing echo chamber. i would be derelict in my duty if i didn t discuss this. what s the next social media? smerconish, the question seems like one that can be answered definitively with data. when that is the case, seeking opinions is kind of pointless unless the goal is to highlight political divisiveness.
1991. i came across an old cartoon of spectre simpson and hatch all sort of in thug outfits with, you know, battering rams and whatnot, with anita hill lying on the floor. it was a baltimore sun cartoon. and the caption was, i don t understand why she didn t come forward sooner. my point here is that this is a story that has repeated itself in many ways and many times. so my message to all the viewers tonight who want to see change, who believe there needs to be change, all the voters that jan just talked about, if you have early voting in your state, go vote. if you have absentee ballot, vote now. if not, get ten young people to go out and vote. millennials in the pew data are shown to vote less now than any other similar cohort previously. and so we really need to get out this vote or these numbers will
my point here is that this is a story that has repeated itself in many ways and many times. so my message to all the viewers tonight who want to see change, who believe there needs to be change, all the voters that jan just talked about, if you have early voting in your state, go vote. if you have absentee ballot, vote now. if not, get ten young people to go out and vote. millennials in the pew data are shown to vote less now than any other similar cohort previously. and so we really need to get out this vote or these numbers will not matter in four weeks. and you can rest assured whether it s a summit with the north korean leader to prove how good donald trump is on foreign policy, or jenning up more lock her up messages to try to keep his base enraged, he will pull every trick out of the bag.
there s some big news out today that should put to rest forever one of the weirdest knchative arguments against the affordable care act. first, some context. there are some people who say that the affordable care act, despite its design to cover more of the uninsured actually isn t doing that. it s failing at its chief mission. judd greg was on this program a few weeks ago and we had an exchange on precisely that point. the uninsured rate has plummeted to a 15-year no it hasn t plummeted. it has not plummeted. it s gone from based on the pew data you think that s true? yes, that is true. i wish you d get your numbers right.
mexico s president. as he find his himself in the middle of a growing crisis. 2014 brought two new milestones for border apprehensions. new pew data shows a number of mexicans at the u.s. border has hit a low not seen since the 1970s. versus a high of 1.6 million in 2000. for the first time the number of nonmexicans apprehended was greater than mexicans last year. writes about that in her latest article on msnbc.com. why the drop? it s part economic and part likely because of border enforcement with the border. we saw that that s been a massive immigration flow from mexico particularly during the 90s when the economy was strong and wages were strong. when there were a lot of constructions that were open. now weem been seeing it over the past five years. there s been a dramatic plunge in the number of people who have